The dominant mood of planners at the recent FPA Conference was that it has been a tough year but it is important to ensure clients adhere to their long-term strategy and ...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has successfully poached Clare Morgan, another of the Securities Institute of Australia’s (SIA) education team, who joins the FPA...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has reacted strongly to claims from the Australian Prudential Regulatory Authority that commission based advisers compromised the...
The middle is dropping out of the financial planning industry as medium sized financial services groups continue to decline in numbers through mergers and consolidation, ...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) has admitted that its membership base suffers serious weaknesses in the key areas of disclosure, training, risk management and ad...
The Prime Minister, John Howard, has renewed his call for Australians to work longer in order to combat the potential fiscal crisis looming as result of the countries age...
The Financial Planning Association (FPA) will continue to push for the introduction of choice of superannuation fund legislation after releasing a report showing that 71 ...
An industry veteran, Tom Collins’ influence in financial services has grown through sheer weight of experience....
If you need proof the last year was dominated by regulatory and industry issues, look no further than Joe Nowak....
CHIEF executive officer of the Financial Planning Association (FPA), Ken Breakspear, has twice won a place on Money Management’s list of Most Influential people....
Australia’s anti-money laundering agency, Austrac, has taken the step to recognise financial planners as legitimate ‘professionals’....
RAISING industry standards and ensuring the full representation of all members are two of the key issues to be tackled by new board members of the Financial Planning Asso...
FINANCIAL advisers will not need to disclose commission on risk products thanks to the lobbying efforts of the Association of Financial Advisers (AFA)....
Financial planning fees and commission have been the subject of much discussion over the years and they are once again back on the agenda....
Choosing the most influential people in the financial services industry is a task fraught with difficulty....
So we are now underwriting criminal scams?...
Glad to see the back of you Steve. You made financial more expensive, not more affordable as you claim, and presided ...
Completely agree Peter. The definition of 'significant change is circumstances relevant to the scope of the advice' is s...